억압된 목소리의 복원: 「리어의 딸들」

The Restoration of Suppressed Voices in Lear ’ s Daughters

Lear ’ s Daughters , a collaborative work by Elaine Feinstein and the WTG (Women’s Theatre Group), is a feminist revision of Shakespeare’s King Lear. It challenges the authority of the Shakespearean canon, and the collaborative writing itself is a challenge to the playwright’s originality and authorship. Lear’s Daughters tries to expose the negative aspects of the patriarchal assumptions embedded in King Lear. In the form of a prequel to the original text, Lear’s Daughters tries to justify the daughters’ ingratitude toward their father. It presents the context and motivation for their ingratitude. The play focuses on the experiences of the daughters rather than Lear’s experience. Furthermore, the play reveals the forms of women’s oppression and tries to restore the female voices suppressed by the patriarchy. Lear’s Daughters is a revision of Shakespeare’s King Lear rewritten from a feminist perspective to dismantle the patriarchal oppression of women.